Commerce Faculty started functioning in 1970, the
year in which our college is established. In those
days, students were not ready to join the Faculty as there was a
separate established college for the Commerce Stream, whereas ours was
a multi faculty college with newly appointed teachers.
In the early days, the main problem
was shortage of students. To overcome this, the teachers decided to go
to the neighbouring villages, at the beginning of the academic year,
to persuade the students to join the college. In order to attract
students, in those days, we offered free lodging and concessional
boarding to them in addition to books. Even then, students were
reluctant to join our college. Those who joined had no academic
background and were mostly first generation literates with poor
academic score.
In order to improve the academic
performance of the students, it was decided in the academic year
1974-75, to engage extra periods daily for all the three B.Com.
classes. This tradition we are following to this day. Another decision
the teachers took voluntarily and which we still follow is the
curtailment of Deepawali Vacation by half and engage extra classes
during this period. As a consequence of our extra efforts, in the year
1977-78, all the merit holders of B.Com. Final year examination were
from our college. This was a turning point in the history of our
Faculty. Thereafter, almost every year at least one or two students of
our college were in the merit list of B.Com. University Examinations.
Again in the year 1995-96 all the merit holders of B.Com. final year
examination belonged to our college.
Due to our consistent efforts, the
strength of students joining our Faculty started increasing year by
year. As a result, we introduced one more division which has English
as the medium of instruction in the academic year 1985-86. At present,
we offer both English and Marathi media for B.Com. students. Because
of these initiatives, at a time when other colleges in Marathwada
region are facing acute shortage of students in the commerce faculty,
we have more students than we can accommodate.From the academic
year 2005-06 we have discontinued Marathi medium classes.
The Marathwada University at
Aurangabad, to which we were then affiliated, was bifurcated in 1994,
and a new University called Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada Universty
is established at Nanded. We are now affiliated to this newly
established university. It is a matter of pride for us that since the
establishment of the new university, all the three merit rank holders of B.Com final year examinations belonged to our college.
Except in 2001-2002, out of
three merits declared by the University, first two merit rank
holders belonged to
our college.
From the academic year
we have started two years full time P.G. course in commerce.